On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:42:50 +0100 Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2007 16:51:57 +0530 > "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > XFCE advertises itself as a fast window manager. But since both are > > based on GTK, won't Gnome be equally fast? What is it that makes XFCE > > faster than Gnome? > > > > GNOME uses additional libraries on top of GTK, and takes a performance > hit as a result. That said, the performance of GNOME has been improving > slowly with each recent release. > > BTW, GNOME and XFCE are desktop environments, as opposed to window > managers. They each include a window manager (metacity and xfwin, > respectively). s/xfwin/xfwm/ > Liam Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
